McLean, VA - Mid-Atlantic Venture Association today announced a slate of high-growth/later-stage companies that will present at its flagship investment conference, Capital ConnectionTM ’09, to be held May 26-27, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Washington, D.C. This selection of invited presenters will join the already announced programming that includes more than 30 early- through expansion-stage companies competitively selected, and other keynote and featured speakers.
“This group of companies invited to be showcased at Capital Connection ’09 represents a cross-section of leading national and global technology innovators and leaders that have achieved significant advances with respect to their company performance and growth across a range of investment sectors,” said later-stage advisory committee member and Selection Co-Chair Will Dunbar of Core Capital Partners. “MAVA is pleased to once again offer Capital Connection attendees the opportunity to hear first-hand from some of the most interesting and accomplished technology companies, while attending the best networking event in the industry.”
The group of high-growth/later-stage presenting companies are from the eastern seaboard and beyond. They represent eCommerce, Clean Tech, Education, Marketing, Software and Telecom sectors.They complement a robust line-up of companies across multiple sectors including a group of 32 previously announced early- through expansion-stage presenters.
“This year, Capital Connection features an open registration format, which provides anyone interested in attending with unprecedented access to executive presentations and special forums,” said Julia Spicer, MAVA’s executive director. “The range of industries and the progress being represented by these prominent, high-growth/later-stage presenters demonstrates why year in and year out Capital Connection is the industry’s leading investment conference.”
The nominated presenting companies, named below, were reviewed by Capital Connection ’09 later-stage advisory committee members Jason Booma, Columbia Capital Partners; John Burton, Updata Partners; Will Dunbar, Core Capital Partners; Tony Florence, New Enterprise Associates; Carter Griffin, Updata Partners; Mark Levine, Core Capital Partners; Don Rainey, Grotech Ventures; and Bob Smith, JMI Equity. The participating companies are:
Contact Solutions, Inc.
Reston, VA
Contact Solutions’ On-Demand IVR Services save contact centers millions of dollars by continuously improving their contact automation while uplifting customer satisfaction levels. Leveraging a world-class infrastructure and an industry-leading hosted services approach around six distinct Centers of Excellence, the company has helped the contact center industry redefine contact automation standards. Large enterprises such as American Express, Delta Airlines, Motorola and many public sector entities benefit from the company's focused, cost-effective contact automation approach.
Fishbowl Marketing
Alexandria, VA
Fishbowl is a leading provider of on-demand software and services for the restaurant industry. Fishbowl’s easy-to-use solutions help local and national organizations of all sizes manage and automate critical guest marketing services, including online email and promotions marketing, online ordering and online reservations. Fishbowl works with over 1,500 clients, 30,000 restaurants, and is the exclusive partner of National Restaurant Association and 35+ State Restaurant Associations. Fishbowl is based in Alexandria, Virginia with offices in North America and Europe.
GENBAND
Plano, TX
GENBAND is a global leader and innovator of next generation IP media, session border and fixed mobile convergence security solutions deployed in over half of the world’s 100 largest service providers. These high-performance gateway solutions are at the core of fixed and mobile networks around the world - evolving, securing and enhancing communications networks. GENBAND has Centers of Excellence in Brazil, China, Maryland, Massachusetts and Texas, and serves customers and partners in more than 80 countries.
Ignite Media Solutions
McLean, VA
Ignite Media Solutions – formerly Advanced Interactive Sciences (AIS) – evolved from its roots as an intelligent speech technology provider serving clients in the DRTV space, to a broad-based direct response marketing services firm providing sophisticated, integrated marketing solutions across multiple channels. Ignite’s management team, call center, technology, and marketplace expertise -- combined with a proprietary consumer database and predictive analytics technology — ensure direct response and per-inquiry media buying is more efficient and profitable.
Infinite Power Solutions
Littleton, CO
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS) is a U.S.-based, clean-technology company that is a global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices and micro power modules for a variety of micro-electronic applications in several different vertical markets. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in the western suburbs of Denver, Colo.
IXI
McLean, VA
IXI for more than 15 years, has helped the nation’s leading financial services and consumer marketing firms optimize marketing efforts, manage risk, identify growth markets, and enhance practice and performance management. IXI solutions enable marketing, sales, and risk management executives to differentiate and target consumer households based on measures of wealth, income, spending, credit, investment style, share-of-wallet, and share-of-market.
Metastorm
Baltimore, MD
Metastorm’s focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution. By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organizations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value.
Partsearch Technologies is the leading replacement parts E-commerce platform for consumer durable goods. Partsearch was founded in 2001 to solve the parts problem in new and innovative ways. It offers over 8 million parts for products in the consumer electronics, appliance, computer, wireless, and outdoor power equipment categories.
Presidium
Reston, VA
Presidium, launched in 2003, pioneered Education Services Management (ESM) and provides outstanding support and services for postsecondary education. Over 650 colleges, universities and institutions rely on Presidium to deliver 24/7 unified service desk solutions. The Presidium ESM platform includes service desk solution for Information Technology and Student Services, including financial aid, admissions, registrar, and enrollment management.
RedVision
Parsippany, NJ
RedVision is the leading independent provider of innovative Real Property Research solutions. Co-founded in 2001 by technology experts that saw the need for all-inclusive solutions that combine experts and technology to improve service levels and the bottom line,RedVision serves users of title evidence looking for relevant and accurate information to make sound business decisions relating to real property transactions.
Rivermine
Fairfax, VA
Rivermine is a leading provider of automated, award-winning solutions that enable organizations to gain visibility into, and control over, their wireline and wireless telecom spend. More than 250 companies—including many Fortune 1000 corporations and large government agencies—have selected Rivermine to optimize their overall telecom environments and dramatically reduce costs. These patent-pending Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions automate the entire telecom lifecycle including contract sourcing, ordering, inventory management, invoice processing and auditing, wireless expense management and reporting/analytics.
Sunbelt Software
Tampa Bay, FL
Sunbelt Software, founded in 1994, is a leading provider of antivirus and antispyware with product solutions in the areas of antispam and antivirus, antispyware, and vulnerability assessment. Leading products include the VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware product line for both enterprises and consumers, the CounterSpy product line, Sunbelt Exchange Archiver, Ninja Email Security and Sunbelt's endpoint firewall technologies.
Twisted Pair Solutions
Seattle, WA
Twisted Pair Solutions is a software company providing Unified Group Communications products and services based on its WAVE software technology platform. Leveraging WAVE and its associated Software Development Kit (SDK), Twisted Pair partners build C4, dispatch and radio interoperability solutions for Defense, Federal, Public Sector and Commercial Enterprise customers worldwide.